Beijing: Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang will go to Malaysia at the end of May for a summit with a newly established group of nations in Southeast and Arab that Beijing hopes to come together against American prices, two sources told Reuters.
China is on an offensive to repair the links with the European Union, Japan and Korea after the American president Donald Trump sparked a global salvo on April 2, which he then suddenly paused for dozens of countries except China.
Li will be in Kuala Lumpur for the ASEAN-GCC-CHINA summit on May 27, held shortly after the Anase summit on May 26, two sources who know the case told Reuters. China has not publicly confirmed who it will send. GCC means Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes six Arab states, including the main Saudi oil producers, Kuwait and Qatar.
The visit of the second civil servant of China comes shortly after President Xi Jinping visited MalaysiaThe president of the ASEAN of this year last month. During his stay, he urged the Nations of the ASEAN to unite to resist “excessive prices”, and progress has been made to finalize a free trade agreement for ASAN-China since then.
Malaysia meetings will follow the high issues American-Chinese commercial talks in Switzerland This weekend, this will probably throw the base of deeper negotiations between the two biggest economies in the world after a period of climbing in the trade war.
One of the sources indicated that the planning of the summit, which began a few months ago, is prior to Trump's import taxation, but trade should be raised on the agenda with two main players in geopolitical power invited in the region.
When he was asked to confirm the visit, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it was willing to “deepen mutually beneficial cooperation” with the countries of the Anase and the CCG at the summit.
“We are going … jointly protect the international economic and commercial order and the global free trade system,” said Lin spokesman Jian.
